What used to take ten people and $50,000 to run a disinformation campaign can now be done by one person for a few dollars in AI tokens. Worse, the AI-generated personas behind these campaigns no longer show the tells that made troll farms easy to spot. Detection has to move from flagging fake content to…
Agentic AI is not a future capability for intelligence teams, Fivecast is actively building it into protective security, cyber and open-source investigation workflows today. The pattern holds across all three: agents take on the multi-source legwork, and judgment on intent, context and consequence stays with the human analyst.
Lesson one: agents assist, humans decide…
The Reading the Room report examines a threat that isn’t obvious at first. It isn’t that AI produces bad intelligence. It’s that AI produces intelligence fast enough, and convincingly enough, that no one stops to check. The bigger shift isn’t happening at the point of production. It’s happening at the point of consumption, in how…
Are Australia’s misinformation detection tools keeping pace with AI-enabled influence campaigns? Australia’s bot-detection tools are being defeated. Fact-checking is too slow to matter. And the campaigns spreading influence today use real people – not bots – to hide their coordination. The AI and Misinformation Symposium Fivecast hosted this year made one thing clear: the threat…
OSINT Insights from Fivecast’s Australian OSINT Community of Interest event
At the Fivecast Australia OSINT Community of Interest Event 2026, we brought together practitioners from government, industry, and academia, to explore how open‑source intelligence and emerging technologies are shaping modern intelligence, investigation, and security environments. Designed as a forum for practical discussion and community…
Financial crime investigations in Australia are increasingly shaped by how effectively intelligence is shared across public and private sectors. This principle underpins Australia’s current approach to financial crime. Through initiatives such as the Fintel Alliance, public agencies and private institutions are working from shared intelligence, combining datasets to uncover patterns that would remain isolated within individual…
Insurance fraud investigations are becoming more complex. Claimants can carefully curate their online presence, yet publicly available information often still contains signals that contradict claim narratives. For investigators, the challenge is no longer access to information – it’s finding relevant, defensible insights quickly within vast volumes of public data. Fivecast delivers open-source intelligence (OSINT) solutions…
OSINT Predictions for 2026: Threats, Tradecraft, and What’s Next Each year, Fivecast CEO and Co-Founder Dr. Brenton Cooper shares predictions on the evolving OSINT landscape. Explore this year’s insights to see what’s changed – and what’s next. Why 2026 will be pivotal for OSINT Open-source intelligence (OSINT) continues to move from the margins to the…
It already has. That’s the power of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) – when paired with ethical AI, and used by intelligence professionals, it becomes a force for good. At Fivecast, we’ve seen OSINT help law enforcement prevent violence, support national security missions, and save analysts hundreds of hours of investigation time. But it’s not just about…
In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, defense, law enforcement, and national security agencies face increasing pressure to detect and respond to risks that often originate online. Data fusion, particularly the integration of open-source intelligence (OSINT) is proving essential to modern intelligence operations. By leveraging secure API integrations, intelligence teams can seamlessly combine OSINT with classified…
The Economic Value of OSINT As global threats grow more complex and data volumes explode, the need for scalable, automated intelligence solutions has never been greater. Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is now a critical capability across government and commercial sectors – enabling faster, more informed decisions while delivering measurable economic value. Yet, while the operational benefits of OSINT…
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